I just find the whole thing a bit sad really. Typical Halifax, we finally find a new revenue stream in the East Stand, something we've been waiting for years, then we go an cock up it up elsewhere. Incompetence on the field gets us knocked out of the NL and ruins our moment in the sun when we get trounced by Leigh, incompetence off the field ruins the best chance we have all year to get a SL side at home and give us something to really celebrate. Yes the RFL should have picked this up earlier, but it isn't their fault, it's obvious from Posner and Clay leaving that the club were aware of this that they've tried to hide this all week, hoping that it would be brushed under the carpet, or that the game would go ahead before it was picked up. I don't blame them for walking, it's a complete shambles.

I do worry about the short-term future of the club, surely the revenue from this and the subsequent game (should we have gone though) would have made up for the NR disaster and more, instead I think the unlucky few of us are going to have to watch us struggle through to the end of year, completely disillusioned as possible.

I don't think I've felt this flat since the 2003 season. A dark day for Halifax indeed. Complete and utter incompetence.


P.S. Safe journey home to the bloke who had travelled down from Northumberland to watch the game. Visibly pi-ssed off when he heard the news at the 3 Pigeons.

Perhaps we could get in touch with Swinton Lions and ask to borrow their stocks.

After home games last season, a Swinton player was put in the stocks and fans were invited to throw wet sponges at them. I think it was done on a rota basis. At the final game of the season against the Skolars it was Martin Moana's turn.

At the Fax, though, we would have no need for a rota. The victims are already known by virtue of their actions / inactions and, bar one maybe, they are not the players.

Sadly this whole episode is an indictment of the game in general. It is the best game in the world run by complete idiots and I include the RFL and the majority of BOD's at almost every club in that statement. The sooner the game is professionally run the better IMO. I'm not Fax's biggest fan by any means but I do feel you supporters in this fiasco.

was one guy in the car park that had just arrived from london for the game,,

I just hope we can bring a good solicitor in to try and sort the whole mess out and maybe save us from exclusion.

As much as I blame Fax board for this mess, I have to agree with Karl Harrison who said on Radio Leeds that surely someone from the RFL should have noticed that we'd played an illegible player as it's been over 3 weeks since the Swinton game. To call a game off with less than 3hrs notice is appaling.

If it was a televised SL game I think the game wouldn't have been called off!

Give me 3 reasons to support championship rugby because all enjoyment has slipped away

Who said any publicity is good publicity????? Feel embarassed to be a Fax fan today & god knows there have been enough opportunities for me to feel that way in the past!

Reconstruction.......
CALLAND...you are playing in the team tonight Ostick
(OSTICK LOOKS A BIT BEWILDERED)
OSTICK....I think I've played in this competition before Matt;
CALLAND...are you sure?
OSTICK...no not really :
CALLAND... o k get your boots on.

Don't blame the RFL/HALIFAX put the blame at the door of the player.

How can you blame the RFL for this, its not their responsibility to check your team selection...its your own get real looking to blame everyone else the fault is down to your club, and also is the player so frickin thick that he did not think for one second it would be an issue.
Do you think the RFL should employ someone full time to check on mistakes like this by incompetent buffoons at the clubs. We all know the RFL have their faults and plenty of them, but this is a club issue. admittedly the RFL should have been aware of this without having to get the news from a fans forum !!

The resignation of Clay and Posner may have been something to do with this but surely it would have been made public much earlier.

They are obviously washing their hands of it which seems a shame as they have helped turn the club around, but are maybe taking the blame for the real fools here which I believe are Hall, Calland and Ostick.

Blame the coach & player simple as & pretty stupid this is a semi proffesional rugby club not under 7's sorry to the Fax fans that have to endure this though

Most people arent blaming the RFL for the club playing the player - where the RFL fall down is not finding out about this and taking action sooner rather than 3 hours before a game, after finding out via a fans message board.

its all VIKINGMANs fault!

To all the trolls...

I dont think I have read a post from a halifax fan that blames the RFL for OUR cock up; on the contrary, we have lambasted our own club left right and centre, and rightly so. Calling for the head of thoose accountable, rightly so. Black cat said so himself. Fax should be expelled from the CCup for this oversight/cheating, which ever it is.

However, also to the trolls absolving the rfl of any blame...

It is their fault that the game was cancelled at 12pm. What sort of a system is it that situations like this only get back to them, evidently, due to a thread raised on THIS forum. Do their operation systems not include any sort of algorythms to detect duplications such as these? It is a sad indicement that the only detection policy is word of mouth...would this have ever been picked up had a Halifax fan not raised it (and a widnes fan 'grassed')...probably not until the rothmans yearbook was penned.

This should have been detected sooner. They cannot have draconian punishments in place when their own policy of detection is such a disgrace.

Halifax are to blame for Ostick playing, and should be thrown out.

No doubt.

RFL are to blame for the game being postponed at a ridiculously late hour, meaning the guy from the north east, the guy from romford, and my sister from southampton, had wasted journies at great expense.